You can renew your backup schedules in Database Backup (DBS) to extend their subscriptions.
Impacts
- A subscription backup schedule has a validity period. If you do not renew a subscription backup schedule before the end of the validity period, your backup services may be interrupted. For more information, see Expiration and overdue payments.
- We recommend that you enable auto-renewal for your backup schedules or manually renew your backup schedules before the expiration date.
Billing
The fee required to renew a backup schedule is the same as that required to purchase a backup schedule. For more information, see Backup fees.
Auto-renewal
If you enable auto-renewal for a backup schedule, you do not need to manually renew the backup schedule on a regular basis. This ensures service continuity even if you do not renew the backup schedule on time.
Enable auto-renewal when you purchase a backup schedule
- By default, the period of an auto-renewed monthly subscription to a backup schedule is one month, and the period of an auto-renewed yearly subscription to a backup schedule is one year. For example, if you select auto-renewal when you purchase a backup schedule with a six-month subscription, the system automatically renews the backup schedule with a one-month subscription each time the backup schedule is due to expire.
- When auto-renewal is enabled, your payment will be collected nine days before the expiration date of a backup schedule. Make sure that your Alibaba Cloud account has a sufficient balance. If your backup schedule is about to expire within 24 hours, you must manually renew the subscription.
- If you have manually renewed a backup schedule before it is automatically renewed, the system will renew the backup schedule based on the updated expiration date.
Enable auto-renewal after you purchase a backup schedule
Manual renewal
Renew a backup schedule in the DBS console
- Go to the Backup Schedules page and select a region in the top navigation bar.
- On the Backup Schedules page, find the ID of the backup schedule that you want to renew. Then, click Renew in the Actions column.
- On the Renew page, set the Subscription Duration parameter.
- Read and select Terms of Service, click Buy and Start, and then complete the payment.
Renew a backup schedule in the Billing Management console
- Log on to the DBS console. Choose in the top navigation bar.
- On the Manual tab, select one or more backup schedules that you want to renew and click Batch Renew below the list.
- Specify a renewal duration for each backup schedule and click Pay to complete the payment.